Bergen County Mom Sells Idyllic Home Steeped In History, Memories

Jenny Viteritti's Hillsdale home was one of the first in Hillsdale's Saddle-Wood-Hills community, a development by renowned Bergen County architect B. Spencer Newman.Photo Credit: Special To Daily VoiceDescriptionPhoto Credit: Special to Daily VoiceViteretti and her boys at the Fourth of July parade in Hillsdale.Photo Credit: Jenny Viteritti

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Sometime in 1995 after Jenny Viteritti moved into her Hillsdale home, she found architectural plans for it in one of the closets.

She didn't think anything of the blue paper. It rarely crossed her mind and remained tucked away in that same closet for decades.

"It was almost like any other manual they would have given me with the house," the mom of two said. "I honestly didn’t even register the house was as old as it was or the plans were as old as they are."

But recently, Viteritti came across the blueprint while preparing to put her longtime Pascack Road home on the market. And this time, she realized the home that kept so many of her family's memories told a story of its own.

Built in 1939 by renowned Bergen County architect and artist
B. Spencer Newman
-- a founding member of the Hackensack Art Club and on exhibit at the Steuben House -- the Tudor-style home was a model house in one of Hillsdale's first developments: Saddle Wood Hills, offered between $7,000 and $30,000.